Whistle and Fouls

By: Ali Eizaz Zahid

Los Angeles : Russian whistle blower Grigory Rodchenkov, who helped orchestrate the country's   state-sponsored Olympic & doping programme, says he fled his homeland because he feared for his life and his family's safety.

''Two days before I fled, a friend within the government warned me that Russia was planning my 'suicide'.

I thought that  my family might be safer with me gone and, if I were to die, at least I would get to tell the truth to the world first.,'' said Rodchenkov, the former director of  Russia's  anti-doping lab that oversaw drug testing at 2014 Sochi Olympics.